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Angola The National Front for the Liberation of Angola
The FNLA was founded in 1954 as the Union of Peoples of
Northern Angola (União das Populações do Norte de Angola
-- UPNA).
Founded to advance the interests of the Bakongo rather
than to
promote independence, the UPNA petitioned the UN in 1957
for
restoration of the Kongo Kingdom, an objective shared by
the
Alliance of Bakongo (Alliance des Bakongo--Abako) in the
Belgian
Congo (present-day Zaire; see
Kongo Kingdom, this ch.).
Because of
important ties to the Bakongo in the Belgian colony and
because of
the difficulties of operating in Angola, the UPNA was
based in
Léopoldville (present-day Kinshasa, capital of Zaire). In
1958,
acknowledging the futility of its quest, the UPNA adopted
the title
Union of Angolan Peoples (Unão das Populações de Angola --
UPA)
and the aim of independence for all of Angola.
Data as of February 1989
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